and purity, as taught by its divine author and His apostles, she may well claim equal honors with any other country of like population in the world. The Baptist Church suffered a schism of no great material importance, but showing the effervescence of agitated sentiment, in 1804, by the withdrawal of Tarrant, Barrow, and a number of other ministers, with some lay following, on account of their implacable hostility to slavery. They intruded these sentiments upon their associations, and demanded open discussion and These bodies generally declared it improper for ministers, churches, or associations to meddle with this or any other political subject. The abolition element, styling themselves "Friends of Humanity," withdrew from the General Union of the Baptists, and in 1807 formed an association of their own, called "The Baptist Licking-Locust Association." Their numbers soon dwindled and the body wasted to nothing.

1In 1809, a local schism was effected by an element of considerable influence in the churches of the Elkhorn Association, originating in alienations and dissensions between Jacob Creath and friends of the one party and Thomas Lewis and friends of the other. Yet the progressive growth of the Baptist Church continued uniformly, and in 1812, the statistics show that they had thirteen associations, two hundred and eighty-five churches, one hundred and eighty-three ministers, and over twenty-two thousand six hundred members. No serious disturbance interrupted the steady growth of the church for the succeeding twenty years. About the year 1829 and after, the noted religious reformation, led by Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone mainly, divided associations and churches, and carried off thousands from this and other denominational bodies. While this great movement depleted its numbers and strength for some years, the Baptist Church has maintained a steady and vigorous growth throughout the subsequent years and to date.

In the statistical tables of the minutes of the General Association of 1890, but representing the figures of 1891, the exhibits show totals of 1,441 churches and 143,288 members reported; also 618 Sunday-schools and 36.991 scholars; contributions to State and district missions, $11,811; to home missions, $6,347; to foreign missions, $8,427; and for all church purposes, $309,900. Statistics of the same year show the colored. Baptists of Kentucky to have 509 churches, 615 ministers, 68, 137 members, 14,000 Sunday-school pupils and 2,875 teachers, 5 academies and universities, 3 journals, and church property valued at $275,000.

Under care of the Baptist Church, institutions of learning have been established. Chief among these in general education stands Georgetown College, an institution which may claim precedence over all others of like importance, for long-continued and uniform usefulness in Kentucky, excepting, perhaps, Centre College. Indeed, it is the fifth Baptist college or university, in the order of time, on the Western Continent, and the first south 1 Benedict, Vol II, p. 233.

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of the Potomac and west of the Alleghanies. It was chartered in 1829, and in June, 1830, Dr. Joel S. Bacon was the first president installed. 1838, Rev. Rockwood Giddings succeeded to the same position, and in a brief time put the institution in prime condition, and increased the subscription to the endowment fund to

eighty thousand dollars. His death was lamented after a brief service of two years. In 1840, Rev. Howard Malcolm, D. D., assumed the presidency, and for ten years discharged the duties of the office with uniform success. This prosperity was continued for twelve years under the presidential administration of Rev. Duncan R. Campbell, D. D., LL. D. In 1852, he was elected president of Georgetown College, filling the position until his death, August 16, 1865.

REV. DUNCAN R. CAMPBELL.

In June, 1879, Dr.

In 1871, Rev. Basil Manly, D. D., was made president, and during his eight years' administration the college was prosperous. Manly having resigned, Rev. R. M. Dudley, D. D., was elected president, and served until his death in 1893. In 1893, Dr. A. C. Davidson, of Covington, Ky., was appointed to the presidency so recently made vacant by death.

In addition, Bethel College, James H. Fuqua, A. M., president, represents the educational interest in West Kentucky, under the auspices of the

Baptist Church, and ranks high in

the excellence of its training of young men for the varied callings of life. The "Enlow fund" furnishes aid to any ministerial student who may enter this college.

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, after long discussion, was finally removed from Greenville, S. C., and located a few years ago at Louisville, and is now in a highly prosperous condition, with an able faculty composed of President W. H. Whitsitt and Professors Sampey, Kerfoot, Robertson, Dargan, Harris and McGlothlin. The Baptists of Kentucky pledged $300,000 for its location, and $200,000 was to be

raised outside of the State. In 1885, the eligible and spacious grounds on Broadway, between Fourth and Fifth streets, were purchased as a site for the early construction of suitable buildings for the Theological Seminary. Two hundred and sixty-seven students, mainly from the Southern States, were in attendance for the session 1894-95.

Of the ministers of the "Particular" Baptist Church who have adhered with greatest firmness and consistency during the present century to the faith

and doctrines of extremest Calvinism as embodied in the Philadelphia confession. of faith, no man stands forth more conspicuously in the religious history of Kentucky than Rev. Thomas P. Dudley, who, at his home in Lexington, at the advanced age of ninety-four years, died July 10, 1886.

Rev. William Vaughn, who began and ended his ministry in the intermediate period of Kentucky history, was born in Pennsylvania, February 22, 1785. He was ordained to the ministry in 1812, and was held in high esteem by the brotherhood of the Baptist Church during the long period of his labors. By his devotion to study, he became not only a good English scholar, but possessed considerable attainments in the Greek language and literature. In 1831-33, as agent for the American Sunday-school Union, he accomplished a great work in establishing about one hundred schools. In 1836, he became pastor of the Baptist Church at Bloomfield, to which he preached for thirty-two years.

In 1868, in consequence of an injury received by a fall, he resigned his pastoral charge, in his eighty-fourth year, but continued to be a close student, and to preach as his strength would serve him, until he was over ninety-two years of age. It is probable that no minister in Kentucky was ever more universally loved and respected. He died March 31, 1877, at the advanced age mentioned above.

The status of the Christian Church assumed proportions in Kentucky, such as demand our attention here. The movement resulting in its separate existence began in Western Pennsylvania in 1809, and in Kentucky and Ohio as far back as 1801, the nuclei of its extension in America and abroad.

Thomas Campbell, born in Ireland, February 1, 1763, was the first to break away from the prevalent ideas of the church. He was educated in the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and became a minister of the Scotch Seceder (Presbyterian) Church. His labors as preacher and teacher impaired his health. April 8, 1807, under advice from his physician, he